Dazzling Stranger

A long-standing interest in the British acoustic music that hasn't consistently translated into shelf space in the music collection meant that I picked up copies of Colin Harper's Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival and Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music and devoured both in pretty quick time, figuring that they'd be pretty good starting points for a more detailed examination of that particular field.

At a stage where I'm investigating as much new music as I can find and filling in the gaps in a forty-year music collection those more detailed examinations aren't always going to be sitting at the top of the list of priorities and with the passing of Bert Jansch (3 November 1943 - 5 October 2011) a large chunk of that deferred investigation of an extensive discography is going to be posthumous.

1965 Bert Jansch
1965 It Don't Bother Me
1966 Jack Orion (with John Renbourn)
1966 Bert And John (with John Renbourn)
1967 Nicola
1969 Birthday Blues
1971 Rosemary Lane
1973 Moonshine
1974 L.A. Turnaround
1975 Santa Barbara Honeymoon
1977 A Rare Conundrum (1976 in Denmark)
1979 Avocet (1978 in Denmark)
1980 Thirteen Down (credited to The Bert Jansch Conundrum)
1982 Heartbreak
1985 From The Outside (only released in Belgium)
1989 Leather Launderette (with Rod Clements)
1990 Sketches
1990 The Ornament Tree
1995 When The Circus Comes To Town
1998 Toy Balloon
2000 Crimson Moon
2002 Edge of A Dream
2006 The Black Swan

Live
1980 Bert Jansch Live at La Foret (released in Japan only)
1993 BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
1996 Live At The 12 Bar: An Authorised Bootleg
1998 Young Man Blues
2001 Downunder: Live In Australia
2004 The River Sessions
2007 Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning (live concert 2006 CD/DVD)
2012 Sweet Sweet Music

Compilations
1966 Lucky Thirteen (U.S. release containing tracks from Jansch's two UK LP's.)
1969 Bert Jansch: The Bert Jansch Sampler
1972 Box Of Love: The Bert Jansch Sampler Volume 2
1986 Strolling Down The Highway
1992 The Gardener: Essential Bert Jansch
1993 Three Chord Trick
1997 Blackwater Side
2000 Dazzling Stranger: The Bert Jansch Anthology
2011 Angie : The Collection

DVD
2007 Fresh As a Sweet Sunday Morning (2006)